Cyber Shadow
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Action-focused indie game Cyber Shadow launched in 2021 from developer aarne-mekaskull-hunziker and publisher Yacht Club Games. It lists at $19.99 on Steam, with 1,256 reviews marked mixed and 0% positive in the provided data.
Overview
Cyber Shadow is a 2021 Action game developed by Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker and published by Yacht Club Games. On Steam it has gathered 1,276 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker with publisher Yacht Club Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 50,000 to 116,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Cyber Shadow can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,276
Positive
84%
Steam appid
861250
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.050K to 116K
units (median: 83K)
≈ $568K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_84% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cyber Shadow at roughly 50,000 to 116,000 copies, with a median around 83,000, derived from its 1,276 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $947K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $15.99Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $15.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $15.99 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cyber Shadow sold?
- indielist estimates Cyber Shadow has sold between 49,764 and 116,116 units (median 82,940), derived from its 1,276 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cyber Shadow?
- Cyber Shadow was developed by Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker and published by Yacht Club Games.
- Who published Cyber Shadow?
- Cyber Shadow was published by Yacht Club Games, developed by Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker. See Yacht Club Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Cyber Shadow released?
- Cyber Shadow was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Cyber Shadow have on Steam?
- Cyber Shadow has 1,276 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
- Is Cyber Shadow worth playing?
- Steam players rate Cyber Shadow 84% positive across 1,276 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Cyber Shadow can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker's other releases and Yacht Club Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cyber Shadow sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Cyber Shadow page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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